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The Shops at Tanforan is a regional shopping mall in San Bruno, California, United States. It is located on the San Francisco Peninsula , 10 miles (16 km) south of San Francisco city limits. The site was originally used as a horse racing track from 1899 until 1964, when the grandstand was destroyed by fire.
The maximum population at Tanforan was 7,816 on July 25, 1942; Tanforan was the second-largest assembly center by population, but still held less than half the population at Santa Anita Assembly Center. The last detainees left the site on October 13.
Tanforan may refer to one of these locations near San Bruno, California: Tanforan Assembly Center , a transfer center for interned Japanese Americans during World War II The Shops at Tanforan , a shopping mall built upon the site of the Tanforan Assembly Center
Tanforan Park was acquired by the Wartime Civil Control Administration in April 1942 [103] and from April to October 1942, used as the Tanforan Assembly Center, where 7,800 Japanese-Americans from the San Francisco Bay Area were held after the signing of Executive Order 9066. For comparison, the population of San Bruno was 6,519 in 1940. [104]
[3]: 22–23 The City of San Bruno requested the new station be named Tanforan Park after the racetrack and later mall that occupied the site, but BART officials, sensitive to the past history of Tanforan as an Assembly Center for Japanese-American citizens during World War II and the recent lawsuit, declined the request in 2002.
The station at Sylvan that was completed in 1963 was demolished in 1998; in April 1999, the Caltrain stop was moved to a temporary location under the I-380 overpass, approximately 3,700 ft (1,100 m) to the north near the Tanforan Shopping Center. A rebuilt station opened at the Sylvan Avenue site in 2003. [3]
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The Emporium locations at The Shops at Tanforan and NewPark Mall became Target stores while Oakland, Hillsdale Shopping Center, and Solano Town Center locations became Sears. Almaden Plaza's location was subdivided into mixed retail use, with stores including Bed Bath & Beyond (now closed since 2023), Circuit City (now Buy Buy Baby ), and ...